Time is money
THE average Swiss watch costs $685. A Chinese one costs around $2 and tells the time just as well (see chart). So how on earth, a Martian might ask, can the Swiss watch industry survive? Yet it does. Exports of watches made in Switzerland have grown by 32% by value over the past two years, to SFr21.4 billion ($23.3 billion). Demand in the biggest markets (China, America and Singapore) dipped recen
Rise of the Robots
Catherine Rampell and Nick Wingfield write about the growing evidence for “reshoring” of manufacturing to the United States. They cite several reasons: rising wages in Asia; lower energy costs here; higher transportation costs. In a followup piece, however, Rampell cites another factor: robots. The most valuable part of each computer, a motherboard loaded with microprocessors and memory, is alread
A third-world dimension
A third-world dimensionA new manufacturing technique could help poor countries as well as rich ones EVERY summer, Seattle holds a raft race in Green Lake, a park that is the eponymous home of the water the rafts must cross. Entries for the Milk Carton Derby have to be made from old plastic milk bottles. The result is a wonderfully Heath-Robinson collection of improvised craft. But this year one st
4,000 Foxconn workers on strike over iPhone 5 quality control measures, inadequate training [updated]
China Labor Watch is reporting that another Foxconn strike broke out on Friday at the Zhengzhou factory in China. The report says 3,000 to 4,000 Foxconn (2038) are complaining about Apple’s (AAPL) demanding quality standards for the iPhone 5. China Labor Watch further reports that workers are under immense pressure to deliver iPhone 5’s without receiving adequate training on how to improve yield r
夏場の電力ピーク時の数時間、製造業（その他各種産業）は節電のために稼働を止められるのか？現場の人に聞いてみた。 - Togetter
【そもそも製造業がどの程度電力を使っているのか？】 電力使用機器の消費電力量に関する現状と近未来の動向調査 （富士経済） PDFファイルなので開く時注意 http://www.fed.or.jp/tech/2008/electricpower.pdf 本資料のp.44によれば、全体の電力の42%を製造業が使っています。 産業用（製造業）42.8% 業務用 ：29% 家庭：28.2% 【そもそも日本の製造業はどれだけスゴイのか？】 日本の製造業は一体どんなものを作って、どれだけのシェアを持っているかという事は以外と知らないと思います。 主要製品・部材の市場規模と日本企業の世界シェア （２００７年） 出典：一般財団法人 貿易研修センター PDFファイルなので開く時注意 http://www.iist.or.jp/wf/magazine/0767/pdf/figure1-j.pdf これを見ると
EMSといえばフォックスコン、その素顔は（後編）
「人材は4流、管理は3流、設備は2流、しかし顧客は1流」 電子機器受託生産（EMS）の世界最大手、フォックスコンの創業者である郭台銘董事長が、自らの経営哲学を説明する際、好んで話すといわれる言葉だ。ビジネスを発展させるカギは、いかに一流の顧客をつかむかにかかっているということなのだろう。 そのフォックスコンの顧客の代表格に挙げられるのがAppleとMicrosoft。iPhoneやiPadの世界的ヒットでいまをときめくスティーブ・ジョブズ氏がAppleを創業したのは1976年。Windowsで世界を席巻したビル・ゲイツ氏がMicrosoftを創業したのは1975年。そして後年、AppleとMicrosoftを顧客に抱えることになる郭台銘氏が、フォックスコンの前身となる鴻海工業を立ち上げたのは1974年のこと。パソコン時代の申し子とも言える3人が、ほぼ同時期に創業していたという事実は興味深い
IBM introduces new graphene transistor
IBM introduces new graphene transistor by Deborah Braconnier , Phys.org (PhysOrg.com) -- In a report published in Nature, Yu-ming Lin and Phaedon Avoris, IBM researchers, have announced the development of a new graphene transistor which is smaller and faster than the one they introduced in February of 2010. This new transistor has a cut-off frequency of 155 GHz, compared to the 100 GHz previous tr
Sahara desert project aims to power half the world by 2050
Sahara desert project aims to power half the world by 2050 by Lin Edwards , Phys.org (PhysOrg.com) -- A joint project by universities in Algeria and Japan is planning to turn the Sahara desert, the largest desert in the world, into a breeding ground for solar power plants that could supply half the world’s electrical energy requirements by 2050. The Sahara Solar Breeder Project aims to begin by bu
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